"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."

"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."

"Love is the cheapest of religions."

"As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty."

"It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away."

"Innocence is always unsuspicious."

"I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were."